A Perfect Day For Bananafish: Theme Analysis
Theme statement: Affluence can foster materialism, thereby creating a life devoid of meaning.Seymour shows great sensitivity when communicating with youths, but lacks the ability to communicate with the money-oriented adult world. We first meet Seymour on the quiet beach of a Miami resort hotel. Sybil approaches Seymour. Seymour treats young Sybil with the utmost respect and kindness. He is very sympathetic to her youth and tries to communicate with her in the context of a child. When he speaks of the "Little Black Sambo" he speaks as though he is the same age as her, showing his excitement and surprise with the amount of tigers in the story. Seymour seems to understand the pains and struggles of being young. When Sybil becomes jealous of Sharon Lipshutz for sitting with him on the piano bench, she tells Seymour he should have pushed her off of the piano bench. He says "Oh, no. No. I couldn't do that…I'll tell you what I did do, though,"(13). She questions him and he replies that he pretended Sharon was Sybil. He carefully goes about explaining the situation that angered Sybil, rather than brushing her anger off as a childish nuisance. In many of his statements Seymour shows that he i
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Approximate Word count = 998
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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